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Mickey 17 with Bong Joon Ho and Ava DuVernay (Ep. 535)

Mickey 17 with Bong Joon Ho and Ava DuVernay (Ep. 535)

Update: 2025-03-28
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Director Bong Joon Ho, accompanied by his translator Sharon Choi, discusses his new film, Mickey 17, with fellow Director Ava DuVernay in a Q&A at the DGA theater in Los Angeles. In the conversation, he discusses how his storyboarding process covered every shot, how he approached having a love story for the first time, and the resonance of the film’s social themes with worldwide audiences.


The film tells the story of Mickey Barnes, an everyman hired by a tyrannical government to work as an “expendable” - a human clone willing to die for one dangerous mission after another. Repeatedly meeting his end for the advancement of space exploration, the 17th Mickey survives a seemingly fatal expedition and comes face to face with a new problem: Mickey 18.


See photos and a summary of this event below:


https://dga.org/Events/2025/May2025/Mickey17_QnA_0325

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Mickey 17 with Bong Joon Ho and Ava DuVernay (Ep. 535)

Mickey 17 with Bong Joon Ho and Ava DuVernay (Ep. 535)

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